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When the messengers came back to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you with 400 men.”

Jacob was terrified and distressed. So he divided the people, the sheep and goats, the cattle, and the camels into two camps. He thought, “If Esau attacks the one camp, then the other camp will be able to escape.”

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And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

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